The Year in Amy Davidson

Responding to the news, particularly in a year like 2015, isn’t easy. The national conversation seemed to veer from malarkey to tragedy and then back again. Fortunately, though, there are writers who carry us through the news cycle by dispensing with foolishness and seeking perspective from sadness. Amy Davidson does both—and a lot more, too, such as adding historical insights to discussions in which the past is often forgotten.

Here are fifteen of her most important pieces in this past, very strange, year, in chronological order.